On 8/5/2020 9:52 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:

not qoHpu''e' neH ghIjlu'

only fools have no fear

I can't understand how the klingon sentence is to be understood.

Is it "as for only fools someone never scares" ?

Or is it "only fools someone never scares them", with the {ghIjlu'} missing a {lu-} ?

I think it's meant more like "Fools, and only fools, are never scared." First of all, remember that *-'e'* means more than the topic-drawing "as for such-and-such." It also means focus: "this thing, not something else." Remember: *jIlujpu' jIH'e'*/I (and only I) have failed./ (It doesn't mean "This sentence is all about me, and I failed.") In fact, this is what *-'e'* means whenever it is the object or subject of a verb. So you can interpret the line like this: "One never scares fools (and this is only true of fools)." The line is missing a required *lu-.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name